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F. G. PARKER.

SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I3, i920.

1,369,047. Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

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APPLICATION FILED AUG. I3, 192.0.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2-2, 1921.

Application led Aug/ust 13, 1920. Serial No. 403,245.

To all 'w kom t may concern:

yBe it known that I, FRED G. PARKER, a citizen of the United States,A residin at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and tate of New Jersey, have invented Icertain new and useful lmprovements in Seats, yof which the following is a specification. l

This invention relates toseats of the class in which there are a basal section and an upper section, the latter being cushioned on the lower section. The improved seat herein set forth is especially designed for automobiles and other vehicles, and the principal objects lare to provide a seat in which the shocks incident to the vehicle traveling over rough places will be absorbed by an air cushion dependent for its effectiveness largely on a fiexible element which gives a finish to the seat, as by being or simulating the cover of the upholstery of its seat proper, and in which the back of the occupant will be supported by a back which moves up and down with theseat proper or upper section. In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a front elevation of the improved seat;

Fig. 3 is a plan, with the seat-proper or upper section removed; l

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 show the lower or basal section in section, and the lower and upper parts of the upper section partly in side elevation and partly in section; and

Fig. 7 is a vertical sectional View taken longitudinally of the seat.

The lower section ofthe improved seat con-. sists of a rectangular box a closed at all sides excepting the top, where it is open for its full length and breadth. It may be supported on suitable base-pieces b designed to rest on the floor of the vehicle. 'The upper section is made in two parts as herein shown and described, though this is not essential. The part c of this section is also a rectangular box closed at all sides excepting the top, where it is open for its full len h and breadth; it may afford a receptac e for tools and the like, as will appear. Part c has somewhat less external dimensions than the inside dimensions of section al, so that it fits therein fairly snugly. Part yc at `the outside and section a. at the inside may be provided with coacting vertical ways a3 and rollers e to ease the up and down movements of the former, which rests 0n springs f interposed between the bottoms of section a and part c, and prevent forward and back or lateral lost-motion of part 0 during such movements. .On part c rests the upper part of the upper section, the same consisting of a board or plate g having cleats z. attached to its under side and upholstered on its upper side, as by the springs ,'padding j and cover Ic, which latter is suitably secured all around to the edge of the board g. This upper part is removably arranged on the part c, its cleats fitting in the latter and so keeping it from. lateral movement; it forms a cover to the recep# tacle afforded by the lower part' c.

An apron or flexible sheet Z, preferably of the same material as and herein shown to' bef a continuation of the cover Ic, depends from the u'pper part of the upper section and extends all around (that is, incloses) the upper portion of the lower section when Vthe two sections are assembled as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 7. This not only gives a finish to the structure, covering the joint between'the telescoped lower and upper sections, but it acts to damp the inflow to and outflowv from an air chamber Z within the lower section and beneath the upper section of air, which it will be seen coacts with the springs f to afford a shock-absorbing cushion. for the upper section. The apron Z has its margin bound all around with a substantial metal strip m, which not only keeps it hugging the lower section fairly closely but 'reinforces it, the latter quality being important in the best form of the invention, where theapron limits the upward movement of the upper section under pressure of springs f, n., being bolts or equivalent devices whereby said reinforced edge of the apron is clamped to the lower section.

The back for the seat is attached to the upper section, movingv up and down therewith so asto avoid rubbing of the occupants back against the same, but it is supported against backward pressure of the oc cupant by rigid guides projecting up from the lower section, thus: Suitable somewhat yielding metal strips o,- angular at their lower portions, are bolted to the back and bottom of and at the inside of parts c of the upper section, being bent backwardlyv above the back of said part of the upper section, as at 0', and then upwardly at an incline, as at o", carrying at their upper ends the back-proper, p, which is suitably secured thereto. yThese strips do not materially increase the weight of the upper section, and their form and arrangement are such that they do not interfere with its free up and down movement. Substantial rigidv guides g, formed approximately L-shaped but with their upper legs backwardly inclined, are bolted to the sides of the lower section below the apron, andv they are formed at their inner faces with vertical guideways (grooves) fr in which the lateral edges of a board s,

Lwhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is z- 1. A seat including a lower section, an upper section, one section being telescoped in and forming an air chamber with the other and the upper section being movable up and down, spring means interposed between the sections, a flexible air-iow-damping apron extending around said sections and depending from the upper section, thel lower edge of said apron having a rigid reinforcement all around holding it in hugging relation to the lower section, and means on the lower section engaged with the reinforced edge of the apron to secure said edge against upward movement relatively to the lower section.

2. The combination of an up-and-down movable structure including a seating portion and a backwardly inclined back yieldable forwardly and back relatively to said seating portion, said structure being springheld upwardly, and a supporting structure including means to guide the seating portion of said movable structure substantially v vertically and upstanding means, inclined backwardly relatively to the path of movement of said seating portion, to limit back-A ward yielding of said back.

3. The combination of an up-and-down movable structure including a seating portion and a backwardly inclined back yieldable forwardly and back relatively to said seating/portion, said structure being springheld upwardly, and a supporting structure including means to guide the seating portion of said movable structure substantially kvertically and means, inclined backwardly relatively to the path of movement of said seating portion, to guide said back in an inclined plane when the movable structure moves up and down.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature FRED Gr. PARKER 

